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A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

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In this tragedy of young people today, Sunday-school has taken a back seat hasn't it. We had several hundred children in Sunday-school and it was a real family affair. There are two many snow-mobiles and skiing trips in the winter and summer camps in the summer, and to be frank about it, I have come to the conclusion myself that, the family pew has come more important than the Sunday-school.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

Interviewer: First of all, I guess the background of the choir, who has been in it? Speaker: Well, there again I can't, the choir is completely volunteer affair. It's getting more difficult all the time, it goes well again I shouldn't well I was there, this is a bad thing to say, we always had ten or twelve boys in the choir, very wonderfully trained and everything and enjoyable.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

I think they had minstrels and they put on minstrel shows if they could find a place to put it on (laughs). ... I don't know who the conductor of those affairs would be. Ah, I just don't know, but they were good and some of them were just downright fun, you-know.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

And when they have their big bazaar up there, or their big (inc), as they call it now, they used to call it a bazaar but now they call it a more-or-less a family get-together affair. It brings the families all together and this thing, so they have all kinds of stalls with (inc) and aprons and jams and all-this-kind-of-stuff and home cooking and everything you see in the mornings and a coffee pot.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

Interviewer: I understand a lot of the carriage manufacturers were, in Ontario, very small businesses, family businesses. Do you know of any large manufacturers that were sort of province-wide? Speaker: Yes. As you say many carriage plants, well they hardly deserve the name plant, well they were family affairs such as ours. My father, my grandfather, and myself, were all involved in this in turn.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

... a lot of the musicians today, you-know, the money they get today is terrific. ... Why, we go out maybe- when we had the orchestra and getting ten- if we got fifteen dollars- you get five dollars, ten dollars, it was a big affair. You might get fifteen. But today, they get fifty or more.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

Well then subsequently after I met my husband we would be at the Royal-York for New-Years-Eve and, and dance and that sort of thing. And then it was house parties and things like that. Yes. Private affairs.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

Speaker: Yeah there was always something decent going on there over there (inc) you-know in uh- like Hamlin's-Point and Centre-Island and Ward's- Island, there was always some kind of an affair going on and- Interviewer: Festivals and fairs. Speaker: Yeah and something like that.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

Interviewer: What about Christmas? What was the s-- way you used to celebrate Christmas? Speaker: Well Christmas is a family affair, and it still is with our family too. We always have Christmas together, uh, and, not always New-Year-s.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

... and she would have her Edinburough crystal out and the turkey would- would have the little white ah paper feet. And it would be displayed, and Uncle Cameron would carve. And it was all such a formal grand affair and it was- it was- I thought it was- I was dining in the ultimate spot. Yeah, you dressed up and you- it was just the greatest thing in the world.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

... there's a lot for me to learn. And this band is corporate. It's- it's not an Indie band, like he's played in- in town here locally. ... Um, this is a corporate affair. And he's got an entertainment lawyer, he's going to have a business manager. He's got ah two band managers you-know, one being- both of them being from the- you-know, very successful pop backgrounds ...

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

... they didn't have a dance but whatever they had- a social- ... That ah- that men and women and so-on would celebrate that night. And that was an annual affair. And one time they had it over on the lawn of those three big houses as I told you. ... That was the strawberry-festival. ... And they served strawberry shortcake.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

Speaker: So the golf-club days were fun. I'm trying to think, we had lots of invitation golf affairs there. Interviewer: And they would have things that they would dress up.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

... a freight-train hit them and killed the both of them. ... And that was in nineteen-thirty-four. In August or- yeah, July or-something. ... And um, so that was a sad affair. And ah, then after that the um, the ah, we kept around working on the farm. Bo and I did all the hoeing and-everything.

A subject or situation under consideration; a matter at hand; a matter to be dealt with; an issue. Also: an occurrence, a sequence of events.

Speaker: Thursday, first of all, Thursday we got there and- and one of Lance's f-- cousins picked us up, and ah, we went to the hotel and then that night we had a red carpet affair, it was a gala, which I n-- and we walked the red carpet. I never thought I'd get to walk the red carpet (laughs). Interviewer: With your broken foot and your beautiful dress.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

Speaker: ... I just go just to go spend a day, do some cooking but now I do- since I've been retired, I'm their cook for the two weeks when they come up- all get together. Interviewer: So it's- Speaker: Kind of a family affair.

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.